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Syriac Manuscripts
Contents
Jacob bar Shakko, Book of treasures.
Title: The Book of treasures.
Language(s): Syriac
Physical Description
Support: Paper, 22½ cm.
Extent: 165 ff.
Condition
Ff. 24-28 are later and replace lost leaves.
Hand(s)
Written in more than one inelegant serto hand. A colophon on ff. 165r-v gives the date 2035 = 1724 CE.
Binding
Bound in Cambridge in quarter leather.
History
Origin:
Provenance and Acquisition
Acquired for the SPCK by George Percy Badger and presented to the Library in 1887.
Record Sources
For a full description see W. Wright and S. A. Cook, A Catalogue of the Syriac manuscripts in the library of the University of Cambridge (1901), i.425-28.
Availability
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Funding of Cataloguing
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